Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh credited Elon Musk and his revamping of X for allowing conservatives to showcase the impact that transgender procedures have on children, saying the billionaire was one of many factors that have played a role in shifting the public’s opinion.
The Washington Examiner asked Walsh on Wednesday if he believes Musk and the recently formed Department of Government Efficiency would be able to aid the incoming Trump administration in banning transgender procedures for children, something President-elect Donald Trump vowed to achieve in his campaign. While Walsh argued that the DOGE could “probably” help with that, he contended that Musk has already contributed “in a huge way” in allowing people to spotlight how transgender medication affects children on the social media platform X.
“Those of us who were on Twitter in the bad old days, we remember that it was basically impossible to talk about this issue because if you said anything that happened to be true, they banned you from the platform for life,” Walsh told the Washington Examiner. “So just by allowing us to speak and get our message out, Elon Musk is one of the people most responsible, I think, for this kind of sea change we’ve seen on this issue.”
One of Musk’s children, born Xavier Musk, transitioned to female in 2020 and asked to be renamed Vivian Jenna Wilson in 2022, with the last name belonging to Musk’s first wife, Justine Wilson. In reflecting on his child’s transition, Musk claimed he was “essentially tricked” into providing puberty blockers, which he said are “actually just sterilization drugs,” to his child.
As Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it to X, the debate on transgender procedures and whether they should be accessible to minors has grown exponentially, with several states, including Tennessee, banning these types of health prescriptions for children. Going into the Trump administration, Walsh told the Washington Examiner he would like to see Congress pass a federal ban on “the castration, mutilation, and sterilization of children,” asking Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance to join him in calling on Congress to get that done.
“Not just banning gender transition of minors without parental consent, because with parental consent or without parental consent, it is a hideous evil, and it is wrong to do that to kids no matter what their parents say about it,” Walsh said. “So that’s what I’d like to see Trump and Vance do, and that’s what I’d like to see Congress do.”
Some of Walsh’s most well-known work include releasing and starring in the films What Is A Woman?, a documentary investigating the concepts of transgender ideology, and Am I Racist?, an investigative documentary critiquing the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. When the Washington Examiner asked whether Walsh is working on any future films, including the possibility of a film delving into the impacts of gender ideology on children, Walsh said he would “love to keep making movies” and plans on doing so but had to keep his next project a “secret.”
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Walsh was in Washington on Wednesday to speak at a rally sponsored by the group Do No Harm outside the Supreme Court, as justices heard arguments over whether a Tennessee state law that bars puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The most notable speaker at the rally was Chloe Cole, a former transgender male who transitioned as a teenager, who stressed that other children should not have to experience the “suffering” she underwent.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Cole told both Trump and Vance “do not falter” in protecting children “from the abuses of these medical institutions.”
